Gabriella C. Canal

Gabriella Canal is a documentary filmmaker and journalist living in Brooklyn. Inspired by her upbringing in a Colombian-American household, she produces character-driven stories rooted in identity and belonging with a focus on women’s voices. She also loves highlighting the efforts of those working to improve human lives and protect the environment. As a journalist and producer, she’s worked with The Atlantic, Global Citizen, John Leguizamo’s NGL Studios and Insignia Films. Her independent work as a director, DP and editor has won a Student Academy Award, and been published in and featured by The New Yorker, The Video Consortium, New York Women in Film and Television and the National Association of Latino Independent Producers. A short documentary series she directed in 2023 on criminal justice data for Measures for Justice was Webby-nominated. In 2022, she became a Pulitzer Center Fellow and an adjunct professor at Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism.